Opportunity-driven global grants

Aid in emergencies and crises, and support to employee-involving initiatives.

MSF is running a clinic in Zamzam camp, ~15km south east of El Fasher, the state capital, hosting more than 300,000 internally displaced people. MSF teams are offering Ambulatory Therapeutic Feeding services. A rapid nutrition and mortality assessment carried out by MSF in Zamzam camp in January 2024 reveals that a deadly situation has unfolded over the past nine months All emergency thresholds for malnutrition have been reached. Almost a quarter of children assessed in the camp were found to be suffering from acute malnutrition, with seven per cent having SAM (severe acute malnutrition) and being at immediate risk of death. , Among children aged six months to two years old, the figures were even more stark with nearly 40 per cent of this age group malnourished – 15 per cent with SAM. The emergency threshold for SAM, which indicates that urgent action must be taken, is two percent – indicating that a serious emergency situation is present in Zamzam camp.

Aid in emergencies and crises

The Ramboll Foundation addresses acute crises in society through direct donations. Crises can include natural disasters and human-made crises. Historically, we have been a supporter of humanitarian aid and will continue to be ready to send aid and support to populations and communities when the need is especially great. Rather than being a strategic and targeted focus area, this is a matter of fundamental humanism – and we have set aside funds to aid in cases of great need through established humanitarian agencies and NGO’s.

The Foundation Board of Trustees retains a preparedness for global emergency support and the freedom to act when the need is great. Relief is to be provided by trusted and established agencies and NGO’s through a lean and simple grant making process.

  • Grants to emergency relief organisations are provided either through partnerships or a dialogue-based process.
  • You cannot apply for funding to emergency and crises relief through the website, as opportunities are identified through strategic partnerships and handled via internal processes. 
  • We do not accept applications for partnerships either. 

However, you can apply for funding to humanitarian projects if they create scalable knowledge within one of our three philanthropic missions.

Employee-involving initiatives

The Ramboll Foundation allocates funds to support initiatives and projects created by Ramboll employees, aimed at strengthening local communities worldwide. These employee-driven initiatives leverage the extensive knowledge and global network of Ramboll's employees.

Being an employee of the Ramboll Group is being part of a great community eager to improve the world and the lives of people. The Foundation supports this basic idea by funding small-scale humanitarian, research and innovation projects initiated or supported by employees for the common good. We also support Ramboll-driven local or global initiatives involving employees.

Grants based on applications for employee-involving projects will be handled internally. The application process is currently being developed and will be announced internally later in the year.

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